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The Annual Edge Query

In my first year, teaching argumentative writing, at Mizzou (University of Missouri) I used the annual Edge question as the foundation for the course. That year, it was: What is your most dangerous idea?

Some students took the question literally and replied by writing essays on skydiving or swimming with sharks, before I could help steer them toward the concept of an idea being socially or morally dangerous to society — Copernicus or Darwinian revolutions being examples. What idea did the students have that was perhaps subversive, I assisted. I received some incredible responses.

This year, the question is a little bit more inside baseball but still fun. Contributors from around the world, scientists and other thinkers, offer short essays that are illuminating and thought-provoking, always.

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This is the Web site of writer and teacher Wm. Anthony Connolly. Here you'll find the latest blog posts and an archive; book summaries; biographical, and academic information. Stop by any time, the coffee is always on. Meanwhile, feel free to drop me a line: anthony.connolly@me.com.